I'm not a fan of this heat wave
Jun. 20th, 2021 04:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
olorielOne month ago we had 10°C days. Now we have 35°C days. Neither is seasonal. What the fuck.
It's been... a couple of weeks. The end of the school year is always a mess up until the final conferences (tomorrow and Tuesday), and then everything suddenly grinds to a halt and we all try to just make it to the holidays (two weeks later) in one piece because technically we still have to teach the kids but they know as well as we do that nothing that happens now is relevant to their report card. Can't spend two weeks just watching movies, though...
I had my final audit in geography two weeks ago, and my final audit in English last Tuesday. Now only the exam audits & colloquium are left (in September) until I'm an actual fully licenced teacher. Seminary is in session again, which means that I have to drive all the way to Siegen again. The long drive and the long sitting on the uncomfortable seminary chairs mess with my thoracic spine and I always have a killer tension headache in the evening and most of the next day. I have to say, remote seminary truly was a blessing.
Currently, classes are actually happening in full and in situ, with all kids present. From Monday on, we'll even be allowed to take off our masks outside in the schoolyard (not inside the building, of course)!
Somewhere in between preparing for audits, just "normal" lesson prep, trying to make up fair grades from the patchy bits of contribution and the single exam we managed to write between lockdowns, and mock lesson prep for seminary, I got my second shot of the vaccine. As it was at the end of a seminary day, I suspect that the subsequent killer headache (see above) was more to blame on the drive than on Biontech. The vertigo and fatigue... might have been Biontech, or might have been the heat. Who knows. Now, at any rate, I'm just groaning at the heat. If this is June, what will August be like?
(Monsoon season, probably. We had monsoon-like rain a week or so ago, which is also Not Seasonal, but at least it filled up the cistern again...)
Two weeks to the holidays. Which will be a time to prepare for the exam colloquium, but also, one hopes, a chance to recover. (Whom am I kidding? I have so much to clean and tidy up that I won't actually get any rest. There's a new building project, too, which will mostly be done by actual craftspeople, but I will have to make room in the attic first, and that's unfortunately going to be... hard.)
It's been... a couple of weeks. The end of the school year is always a mess up until the final conferences (tomorrow and Tuesday), and then everything suddenly grinds to a halt and we all try to just make it to the holidays (two weeks later) in one piece because technically we still have to teach the kids but they know as well as we do that nothing that happens now is relevant to their report card. Can't spend two weeks just watching movies, though...
I had my final audit in geography two weeks ago, and my final audit in English last Tuesday. Now only the exam audits & colloquium are left (in September) until I'm an actual fully licenced teacher. Seminary is in session again, which means that I have to drive all the way to Siegen again. The long drive and the long sitting on the uncomfortable seminary chairs mess with my thoracic spine and I always have a killer tension headache in the evening and most of the next day. I have to say, remote seminary truly was a blessing.
Currently, classes are actually happening in full and in situ, with all kids present. From Monday on, we'll even be allowed to take off our masks outside in the schoolyard (not inside the building, of course)!
Somewhere in between preparing for audits, just "normal" lesson prep, trying to make up fair grades from the patchy bits of contribution and the single exam we managed to write between lockdowns, and mock lesson prep for seminary, I got my second shot of the vaccine. As it was at the end of a seminary day, I suspect that the subsequent killer headache (see above) was more to blame on the drive than on Biontech. The vertigo and fatigue... might have been Biontech, or might have been the heat. Who knows. Now, at any rate, I'm just groaning at the heat. If this is June, what will August be like?
(Monsoon season, probably. We had monsoon-like rain a week or so ago, which is also Not Seasonal, but at least it filled up the cistern again...)
Two weeks to the holidays. Which will be a time to prepare for the exam colloquium, but also, one hopes, a chance to recover. (Whom am I kidding? I have so much to clean and tidy up that I won't actually get any rest. There's a new building project, too, which will mostly be done by actual craftspeople, but I will have to make room in the attic first, and that's unfortunately going to be... hard.)
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Date: 2021-06-20 04:37 pm (UTC)Sorry you have not been feeling well. Wonder if the pain will go away when school ends.
Sorry for all of the corrections!
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Date: 2021-06-23 06:54 am (UTC)Can't believe Alex is already entering High School! Time flies. Felix is graduating from Elementary next week. We won't be able to attend because the celebration - while in-person - takes place at 11 am. I'm asking you! The mother-in-law will go, though, so he isn't alone. Such a strange thought that he'll enter Middle/High (it's the same institution here) after the holidays. I hope he'll settle in well. For me, it was a bit jarring back in the day. :/
A lot of the pain is tension, so I'm sure it'll get better during the holidays. At least if I don't spend too much time in front of the computer trying to catch up with fandom! ;)